[OT] Windows Update wreaks havoc with Outlook

[Ian Thomas]

RANT - This really pissed me off. 

Desktop Outlook continually crashed yesterday/today, so after checking all the 
disk and system integrity things, running Scanpst on .pst and .ost files, etc I 
hid the files, started a new Outlook profile, and reconfigured (totally 
rebuilt) my mixed PST pop3, mapi, and IMAP email system that synchronizes 
desktop, laptop, tablet and phone via outlook.com (not Office 365).
Waiting for 6Gb of emails and attachments etc to fill up my new .ost, I decided 
to check who else in the interweb had a recent, similar problem.
Yes. KB3097877 of 10November is known to cause the continual crashing of all 
versions of Outlook. Workaround: disable download of images with emails. Fix: 
Uninstall the Windows Update (named), reboot and check for available Windows 
Updates (the faulty one has been replaced).
Thanks, Microsoft devs  
 

Ian Thomas
Sent from my Lumia 640 XL
Windows Phone

Native DLL and Azure deploy

[Greg Keogh]

Folks, we have an existing product which is currently deployed to hosted
Win2008R2 servers and it's composed entirely of the following:


   1. A small NoSQL database.
   2. A branch of folders and files, possibly thousands of text files
   ranging in size from 1KB to 200KB. For ancient historical reasons these
   files are the "database" of the product and they can't sensibly be
   normalised into an RDB.
   3. A httpBasic service.
   4. A REST service.
   5. A native 64-bit DLL created by Borland XE C++ which is called via
   Interop from the two services.

My upcoming mission is prove this product can be deployed completely into
the cloud (probably Azure because I have a developer account). Everything
looks like a cinch to deploy to Azure because everything has a direct
equivalent ... EXCEPT the native DLL. Does anyone know if this will present
some Azure deployment problems because it's not a managed assembly?
Security?

The native DLL will also have to read Blobs, so I'm hoping there is
something in the Azure SDK to allow this.

*Greg K*

Re: [OT] Windows Update wreaks havoc with Outlook

[Tom Rutter]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. On a related topic, is there a reason
you use Outlook in general? I've been using Gmail for a long time and never
really got into Outlook but I assume I'm missing out on stuff as many like
yourself use it. Seems very heavy to me just for email and calendar

On Friday, 13 November 2015, Ian Thomas  wrote:

> RANT - This really pissed me off.
>
> Desktop Outlook continually crashed yesterday/today, so after checking all
> the disk and system integrity things, running Scanpst on .pst and .ost
> files, etc I hid the files, started a new Outlook profile, and reconfigured
> (totally rebuilt) my mixed PST pop3, mapi, and IMAP email system that
> synchronizes desktop, laptop, tablet and phone via outlook.com (not
> Office 365).
> Waiting for 6Gb of emails and attachments etc to fill up my new .ost, I
> decided to check who else in the interweb had a recent, similar problem.
> Yes. KB3097877 of 10November is known to cause the continual crashing of
> all versions of Outlook. Workaround: disable download of images with
> emails. Fix: Uninstall the Windows Update (named), reboot and check for
> available Windows Updates (the faulty one has been replaced).
> Thanks, Microsoft devs 
>
>
> Ian Thomas
> Sent from my Lumia 640 XL
> Windows Phone
>